Yes, I learned the value of an external drive when our computer died years ago and I lost everything. When we switched to Linux, I made sure we had three ways of saving all that digital stuff.
But I still have my paper for crucial things, and can hold it all in my hot little hands.
My daughter-in-law surprised me, because she was making hardcopies of all the digital pictures they had of my granddaughter. As a backup. thought that was cute, with the younger generation going backwards, so it seems :-). Or forward...?